Homeless Point-in-Time Counts

Overview

Homeless Point-in-Time Counts is a configuration of Survey123 for ArcGIS and Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS that can be used by health and human service agencies and their network of volunteers to conduct sheltered and unsheltered homeless surveys.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires that Continuum of Care (CoC) communities conduct an annual count of homeless persons who are sheltered in transitional housing, emergency shelter, and Safe Havens. Continuums of Care also must conduct a count of unsheltered homeless persons every other year (odd numbered years). Homeless Point-in-Time Counts leverages the HUD model surveys and can be used to conduct sheltered and unsheltered surveys. These model surveys reflect best practices and input from leading survey and homeless methodology experts.

Survey authoring

Survey hosting

What you get

Homeless Point-in-Time Counts can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization without downloading the solution. When you deploy Homeless Point-in-Time Counts in your organization, you'll find the following:

Item

Name

Description

Survey

Homeless Count

A survey used by health and human service agencies and their network of volunteers to conduct a Point-in-Time Count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons.

Application

Homeless Count Dashboard (Automated deployment)

An application used to monitor results of a Point-in-Time Count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons.

Map

Homeless Count Dashboard (Automated deployment)

A map used in the Homeless Count Dashboard application to monitor results of a Point-in-Time Count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons.

Feature layers

Homeless Count

A feature layer used to store responses to a Point-in-Time Count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons.

Homeless Count_dashboard (Automated deployment)

A feature layer view used to monitor the results of a Point-in-Time Count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons in the Homeless Count Dashboard application.

View applications

The Homeless Point-in-Time Counts solution includes a collection of applications.

Take the Homeless Count survey for a test drive if you'd like to see how health and human service agencies and their network of volunteers can conduct a point-in-time count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons from a smartphone, tablet, and desktop computer.

Take the Homeless Count Dashboard application for a test drive if you'd like to see how health and human service personnel can monitor results of a point-in-time count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons.

Take the Homeless Count Results application for a test drive if you'd like to see how health and human service personnel can view the detailed results of a point-in-time count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons.

What's new

Below are the release dates and notes for Homeless Point-in-Time Counts.

Date

Description

September 2018

An update to include additional survey questions. This update also adds query capabilities in the Homeless Count Dashboard application.